死し苦く

noun

suffering of death; inevitability of death

Buddhist term; one of the four kinds of suffering (四苦), referring to the fundamental pain and inevitability of death.

See also: 四苦

• 仏ぶっ教きょうでは、生しょう老ろう病びょう死しの四し苦くの一ひとつとして死し苦くが説とかれる。

  In Buddhism, the suffering of death is taught as one of the four sufferings: birth, aging, sickness, and death.

noun

death pains; agony of death

General term for the physical or mental agony experienced at the moment of death; not limited to Buddhist context.

• 彼かれは最さい期ごの瞬しゅん間かん、激はげしい死し苦くに顔かおを歪ゆがめた。

  In his final moments, his face contorted with the intense agony of death.